Here's How Apple Allegedly Gamed Proview Out Of Its 'iPad' Trademarkhttp://www.businessinsider.com/apple-ipad-trademark-2012-2/comments
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Sun, 02 Aug 2015 17:39:18 -0400Dylan Lovehttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f4d9338eab8ea0e75000011RattyUKTue, 28 Feb 2012 21:53:44 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f4d9338eab8ea0e75000011
Don't forget that Apple settled with Cisco... Nothing to see here, move along.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f4d685269bedd8448000035drosloviniaTue, 28 Feb 2012 18:50:42 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f4d685269bedd8448000035
Nice job application, but you do realize that Proview is a Chinese company, right? It's a heck of a commute. Of course, if they decide they need a publicity agent, pretending to be a "journalist" for English-language web sites, you might be high on the list.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f4d521e69bedd0a1500004cStillBBTue, 28 Feb 2012 17:15:58 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f4d521e69bedd0a1500004c
Just iPAD? No vacancy for any PAD in China...
<a href="http://savememory.blogspot.com/2012/02/just-ipad-no-vacancy-for-any-pad-in.html" target="_blank">http://savememory.blogspot.com/2012/02/just-ipad-no-vacancy-for-any-pad-in.html</a>http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f4cfd0deab8ea0948000063citizenTue, 28 Feb 2012 11:13:01 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f4cfd0deab8ea0948000063
Don't forget that Apple just STOLE the iPhone name from Cisco right here in the US.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f4cf3f469beddb74f000037EthanHTue, 28 Feb 2012 10:34:12 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f4cf3f469beddb74f000037
Apple's behavior might not be illegal but if this is acceptable (albeit unethical) behavior what other dodgy practices are hidden under the carpet. Laws are there to guide society, not something that you should do your best to trick and avoid... until caught. Do things righthttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f4cd9bceab8ea540d00002crobertholtzTue, 28 Feb 2012 08:42:20 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f4cd9bceab8ea540d00002c
Legally the practice is entirely legitimate. Ethically, well that, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
On the one hand, had Proview known it was for Apple, they might have sold for considerably more. On the other hand, they might have unrealistically gorged Apple to an unrealistic sum. Theoretically, the rationale behind this practice is to protect a large famous company from being taken to the cleaners when it should be entitled to the fair market value of the IP.
As @Ian Waring rightly pointed out, Walt Disney did the exact same thing when buying up the land needed to build Disney World. The practice was applauded then as after all, the land owners were paid a fair rate and all turned profits on their sale.
As @Guy also rightly pointed out, the bigger commentary of this is the proper due diligence and deal terms on the side of the selling party. On some level, it is revisionist of them to make this complaint as if to suggest that they didn't willingly enter into the agreement to sell the name for the price they did.
The value and notoriety of the name "iPad" is not intrinsic to the name... it is intrinsic to Apple's product and it is Apple's contribution to the value of the IP as it now stands, not Proview's.
In the same way that land immediately adjacent to Walt Disney World is more valuable now than when it was adjacent to sparse undeveloped swamp land, the increase now in the value of the IP is rightfully Apple's benefit regardless of what Proview was or wasn't told.
They didn't HAVE to sell. So far as I know, no one put a gun to their heads.
Attention anyone who owns marks with the "i" prefix before an everyday word:
When you sell to a buyer, don't just set a sale price -- negotiate a royalty!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f4cd956eab8ea3d0d000024grizzlyTue, 28 Feb 2012 08:40:38 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f4cd956eab8ea3d0d000024
You gotta expect this kind of stuff from Apple by now..http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f4ccab3ecad04cd4b000021Ian WaringTue, 28 Feb 2012 07:38:11 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f4ccab3ecad04cd4b000021
That's how every company buys domain names, or indeed how Disney bought land in Florida for the theme park. I used to work for a large telco, and when they wanted a domain name, they routinely bought through a third party agent to ensure the transaction was in line with its true value - and not inflated out of all proportion because the buyer was a large enterprise.
Don't know why you media lot are giving any oxygen to this company whose financial malaise is such that they have to pretend they didn't really sell the name - even though it's obvious they did and that Apple purchased it in good faith for the territories it was previously used in.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f4cc4aa6bb3f72670000055GuyTue, 28 Feb 2012 07:12:26 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f4cc4aa6bb3f72670000055
There isn't anything wrong with what Apple did. If anything Proview should have been more cautious about
any company buying the rights to the "Ipad" name. I mean isn't it obvious that it was somehow going to
be used for technology related products. In addition, Proview could have also shored up the contract with certain stipulation in black and white.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f4cc056ecad04a03100004cJesus Hates AppleTue, 28 Feb 2012 06:53:58 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f4cc056ecad04a03100004c
More proof that Apple engages in dishonest practices. Fake name? Come on. Jobs was one helluva ****wit. Hope he's having fun down there with Lucifer.